US ‘threatens Ecuador with trade sanctions

all about the money....

US ‘threatened Ecuador with trade sanctions’ if it introduced UN breastfeeding resolution

The US had supposedly asked for language asking governments to “protect, promote, and support breastfeeding” to be removed. The resolution ultimately passed but not before world health officials were shocked at the behaviour of the US delegation at the May UN World Health Assembley in Geneva, the New York Timesreported.

Ecuadorians, facing having important military aid from the US rescinded on top of harsh sanctions on critical goods, backed down. But, the US did not threaten Russia in the same manner.

An unnamed Russian delegate said the country stepped up to back and help pass the resolution because they felt “it is wrong when a big country tries to push around some very small countries, especially on an issue that is really important for the rest of the world".

Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States."

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We all know that "points make prizes" and as such my Gold Medal tally may now be somewhat smaller, it is something I can live with without concern.

But "lack of education", please clarify.

If it's the Russian Translation then I will blame the online site. I will even name and shame them here, if it means a positive response and my Gold Medals continue to have new Golden friends, to spend happy times clinking together through the desperate times TD may face ahead.

My Kremlin handlers spent more time with me on smuggling CW through western security systems. That seems to be still OK.

The medals, so proudly displayed under my anonymous user name, will once again shine, like a beacon of light, in this sometimes dark mysterious world of TD.